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Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
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Charles West
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I learn via Ainoa Castro of this useful online guide to Latin palaeography, put together by the Vatican library
spotlight.vatlib.it/latin-paleog...
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1. SOME IMPORTANT PREMISES
Paleography has its own technical vocabulary (like any academic discipline). It uses several specific terms that have a particular meaning to indicate a) the physical structure of the signs and b) the general categories of types of writing. The following are the most common terms.
https://spotlight.vatlib.it/latin-paleography/feature/1-some-important-premises
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Erin L. Thompson
1 day ago
I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵
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Dylan Lewis
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📢 Calling all special collections oomfs! I’m doing a very informal survey of how different American universities staff their special collections reading rooms. If you’re willing to answer a few questions, please DM me! (You don’t need to work in the RR, you just need to know how the RR is run)
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Bo Thompson
1 day ago
Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:
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If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.
The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…
https://share.google/R7sudvB1AkwhKRono
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Greg Walker
1 day ago
This looks an amazing (and very generously funded) opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a medieval literary PhD.
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Gary Brannan
2 days ago
Anyone for SIXTEEN MILLION new records to search on Ancestry? Including for the first time ever, all of the wills from the Court of York, 1389-1858? Not just the indexes this time, but also new images of the Registers themselves?
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Krisztina Ilko
4 days ago
It's great to see this article in The Conversation up now! Link in the first comment.
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James O’Sullivan
4 days ago
Call for Chapters: Minimal Computing for Social & Cultural Heritage Link to call:
jamesosullivan.github.io/MinimalCompu...
This collection will explore how minimal computing can be applied to social/cultural heritage. We welcome full chapters as well as shorter pieces. Funded
@researchireland.ie
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RLUK Research Libraries UK
4 days ago
Earlier this month we were pleased to support a
@thefnl.bsky.social
briefing on how Acceptance in Lieu (AIL), Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) & private treaty sales could benefit institutions, depositors & donors. 📺 A recording of this event is now available to watch at
youtu.be/c6knmsTll20
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FNL Briefing: Acceptance in Lieu and the Cultural Gifts Scheme
YouTube video by ResearchLibrariesUK
https://youtu.be/c6knmsTll20
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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers
4 days ago
119 new transcriptions in the Mary Hamilton Papers, many AI-generated, all corrected and marked up by two human editors. David and Nuria are now checking the much-delayed refresh. See 'Converting Conversations' from the MHP, Pete Morris's blogpost(
aiiamanchester.com/2025/10/09/c...
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#18thC
#langsky
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Federico Pianzola
4 days ago
Interested in Digital and Computational Humanities for your Master's? The University of Groningen (Netherlands) offers three masters at different levels, from humanities grads with no coding experience to aspiring NLP researchers. Strong interaction with a leading NLP group
@gronlp.bsky.social
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The Scottish Record Society
5 days ago
We’re funding research into
#palaeography
teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...
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SRS Research Fellow, Palaeography Teaching in Scotland Audit at Scottish Record Society
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/srs-research-fellow-palaeography-teaching-in-scotland-audit
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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections
8 days ago
📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...
🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
9 days ago
Computational paleography has become a key meeting ground for the humanities and computer science. We are delighted to offer workshop at this year’s
#ICDAR2026
conference to showcase the latest developments in this dynamic field. CfP is open until 22 May!
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IWCP 2026
https://uhh.de/csmc-iwcp2026
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Excellent opportunity!
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David Mihalyfy
20 days ago
13,000 ostraca! "Demotic script [is] roughly 60-75% of the material, while between 15 and 30% are in Greek. Smaller numbers appear in Hieratic script (about 1.5%), Hieroglyphic script (0.25%), Coptic (0.2%), and Arabic (0.1%)..."
#Egyptology
#ClassicsBlueSky
english.ahram.org.eg/News/563811....
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13,000 ostraca discovered at Athribis archaeological site in Sohag - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities
An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has uncovered about 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis, offering new evidence about daily life and administ...
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/563811.aspx
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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections
12 days ago
Want to read a watermark but there’s too much text on it? Then use the magic eraser. It’s really simple: you upload a photo and the image appears without the ink.
#siteoftheweek
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Magic Eraser: Ink be gone.
Automatic removal of ink from transmitted light images with a neural network.
https://images.erdmann.io/magic_eraser/
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What a beautifully written, thought-provoking article.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle
When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/22/i-have-stage-four-cancer-there-will-be-no-cure-but-death-isnt-necessarily-imminent-this-is-how-it-feels-to-live-in-the-long-middle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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ianVisits
15 days ago
There’s an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ins...
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Inside the London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay
There's an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/inside-the-london-office-where-swinging-pendulums-keep-cyber-threats-at-bay-71054/
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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies
15 days ago
Job vacancy: We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Apply now!
de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/3dhjdvo3...
#medievalsky
#earlymodern
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Churchill Archives Centre
15 days ago
🚨 We're looking for a new Project Archivist 🚨The main objective of the project is to catalogue the papers of Harriet Harman. [Full time, 2 years fixed contract] The deadline for applications is 3 April 2026 with interviews planning to be on the 14 April 2026
buff.ly/mhMCz8E
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn
15 days ago
CILIP & CILIP School Libraries Group continue supporting this school librarian member through this unprecedented and worrying situation
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/
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15 days ago
An anti-suffragette postcard from the early 1900s 'First she gets the vote, then she gets your wife!'
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Heather Froehlich
16 days ago
This is an an article that I WISH so badly I had as a grad student so I would know where I was in the process and what the expectations were at every stage (by a now-colleague). This should be given to every student starting + finishing grad school
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Graduate student intellectual journeys: a functional method to identify library service gaps
Investment in graduate education is costly in various ways so completion success is a big concern for universities and stakeholders. Largely the gradu…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009073242200003X
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Adrian Streete
17 days ago
I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)
College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)Vacancy Ref: 195373Salary, Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum The School of Critica...
https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer-in-early-modern-english-literature-r-and-t-5847169?source=gla.ac.uk
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Ashley Kuckelman
18 days ago
Democrats: We want to fund housing, a living wage, education & healthcare for the American people. Republicans: Shut up losers, We don’t have the money. Also Republicans: 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Angela McShane
18 days ago
Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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Newcastle University hiring Research Assistant/Associate: Mainstream Song, Class, and Culture 1520-2020 in Newcastle, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 1:26:21 AM. Salary: Research Assistant - £33,002 to £34,610 per annumResearch Associate - £35,608 to £46,049…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4384958855/?refId=AHcNcRYE0E%2FmukDIl2kHgw%3D%3D&trackingId=AHcNcRYE0E%2FmukDIl2kHgw%3D%3D
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Borthwick Institute for Archives
19 days ago
🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link:
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...
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IIIF Consortium
19 days ago
The preliminary program for the 2026
#IIIF
Annual Conference is now available. See the program for our Showcase, conference days, workshops, and Birds of a Feather sessions here:
conference2026.iiif.io/program/
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A really interesting post on libraries and archives’ responses to AI.
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18 days ago
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Caitlin Ellis
about 2 months ago
Available Oslo PhD positions – heritage conservation, archaeological & paleoenvironmental geochemistry, & on the POLYCHROME project (concerning historical sources on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries)
#jobfairy
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
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Vacancies - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
https://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/about/vacancies/
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Oh my, I was once asked a similar question (about removing a goat from a library) in a JOB INTERVIEW. (I got the job…)
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21 days ago
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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz
22 days ago
So excited to have Eyal Poleg from Hidden in Plain Sight
@hips-project.bsky.social
to come and talk to us at DH Research Group at Leeds
@dcch-leeds.bsky.social
on Wed, 18 March! 😍 All welcome to the **hybrid event**. Further info and registration:
dcch.leeds.ac.uk/events/new-s...
#bookhistory
#dh
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New Scientific Methods in Unfolding the Afterlife of Sacred Books | Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub
https://dcch.leeds.ac.uk/events/new-scientific-methods-in-unfolding-the-afterlife-of-sacred-books/
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Chetham's Library
23 days ago
The Afterlives of John Dee's Books ✨ Five surviving volumes from the library of John Dee, once part of the largest private collection in Elizabethan England, are now held at Chetham’s Library. Discover the afterlives of John Dee's books in our blog ➡️
library.chethams.com/blog/the-aft...
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Medieval Manuscripts
23 days ago
We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below!
www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Ryn
24 days ago
It's been happening for at least a year, to many archives.
www.glamelab.org/products/are...
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Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?
https://www.glamelab.org/products/are-ai-bots-knocking-cultural-heritage-offline/
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Jack Ashby
25 days ago
Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at
@zoologymuseum.bsky.social
, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
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Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-university-museum-of-zoology-and-the-university-of-cambridge/
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Megan L. Cook
25 days ago
Any day on which I get to teach Kruger's "Claiming the Pardoner" essay is a good one. What an amazing, lucid, durable piece of criticism. Give it to a smart student with any interest whatsoever in queer theory, and they are ready to LOCK IN to medieval literature afterwards
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Alan Liu
26 days ago
Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.:
publicscholarship.org
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A search index of expert podcasts, videos and essays.
Explore our curated database of essays, podcasts, and videos authored by the world's leading experts and designed for the public.
https://publicscholarship.org
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BROKENSONG
26 days ago
Two new positions with the
#ERC-BROKENSONG
project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project.
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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https://my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecruit/apply?id=040484
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BROKENSONG
26 days ago
The second position with
#ERC-BROKENSONG
is for a Research assistant/Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in statistical image processing/multispectral image processing. Deadline Mar 29, 2026.
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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Duncan Bell
28 days ago
POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
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Katarzyna Anna Kapitan
28 days ago
#jobklaxon
Lecturer in
#digitalhumanities
Application Deadline: 29.03.2026 Very sensible language policy, B1 after 2 years and B2 after five years. Maybe of interest to the members of
@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social
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ANZAMEMS
29 days ago
Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, ANU #medieval #earlymodern
anzamems.org/lecture...
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Katie McDonough
about 1 month ago
This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at
@bplmaps.bsky.social
. Apply by March 30th.
#glam
#maps
🗃️
www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...
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Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
https://www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/curator-or-associate-curator-of-maps-geography/
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I couldn’t love this more…
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about 1 month ago
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Cambridge Digital Library
about 1 month ago
What do you do with eight cases of Baskerville font punches?! Have lots of digital letter fun of course! There's even RTI and 3D Models to play with ...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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about 1 month ago
I’m giving a talk
@thelondonarchives.bsky.social
on April 29th! 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-and-...
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Crime and the London Rare Book Trade 1890-1930
Join an evening talk by Dr Laura Cleaver - exploring London life, book trade workings, and views on rare books through crime stories.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-and-the-london-rare-book-trade-1890-1930-tickets-1983775138842
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Dr Liam Sims
about 1 month ago
Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612).
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
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Fine Books & Collections
about 1 month ago
New Morgan Exhibition Explores the History of Storytelling
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
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New Morgan Exhibition Explores the History of Storytelling
Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling is running at The Morgan Library & Museum focusing on the rich history of storytelling through 140 literary works and other objects from its own ...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/new-morgan-exhibition-explores-history-storytelling
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